Webern Conducts Berg's Violin Concerto (Louis Krasner, Violin): Mvmnt 1 Andante-Allegretto PART A

[NitramZiarreh]

I didn't even know this recording existed - thanks so much for posting it. Maybe now that youtube is less limited you could upload a better quality version in one piece? Just a thought...

[moltogordo]

This makes other recordings pale in comparison - you can hear everything that Berg intended, and the pacing ensures it. Thanks so much for the upload.

[moosatious]

The problem with Webern conducting was that he was so meticulous (spending an hour, say, trying to perfect a few seconds of music) that he drove the musicians nuts. T.W. Adorno writes about a Bruckner 7th conducted by Webern which changed his entire understanding (up to then quite negative) of Bruckner, Sadly, no evidence of that concert having been recorded. This concert here was recorded only because the violin soloist who commissioned it hired an audio engineer to record it for him.

[cnmaster01]

so beautiful, this piece has never been more moving. not even 2 minutes in and I'm tearing up

[allarmunumralla]

I read a review once in ARG that said that this is the definitive recording, the only of it's kind, and that nobody plays it like this and they should. Thank you thank you for posting this. I've been waiting years to hear it.

[gra1gc]

Webern aspired to be another Mahler as a conductor, and as evidenced by this recording, quite a good conductor. However, I think he was rather naive about the promoting himself.

[theprof1958]

Webern is definitively a giant in Western music. A composer you can talk about "before Webern" and "after Webern"

I didn't know he was also a great conductor.

Who knows if exists any "Webern conducts Webern"?

[mahler151]

Either Berg was a really tall man, or Webern was very small. it's odd seeing them standing next to eachother and having Berg towering over Webern.

[5InAnotherLand5]

@mahler151 Berg was 189cm tall

[mahler151]

And how tell was Webern?

[5InAnotherLand5]

@mahler151 Approx.165cm.You can compare yourself - they are standing side by side.BTW Stravinsky adored this picture.

[mahler151]

@5InAnotherLand5 Heh, that so? It is quite a fine picture, what was Stravinsky's reason for adoring it?

[5InAnotherLand5]

@mahler151 He admired those two great musicians - that's what he said - and had this picture hung over his desk. See his "Dialogs" with Robert Kraft.

[mahler151]

@5InAnotherLand5 Can you PM them to me? I seem never to remember to do that when I'm free.

I've also followed in Stravinsky's footsteps and recently printed this picture out and hung it over my piano.

[moosatious]

Better question: Can we expect more Webern conducting anything? I fear not. This was recorded because Krasner paid someone a lot of money at the time to do it privately. The disks then sat in a trunk somewhere 40 years, forgotten. There was a Bruckner 7th conducted by Webern around this time which even impressed Theodore W. Adorno (philosopher and student of Berg). Sadly, I don't think the BBC recorded it.

[CaptainBluebear08]

Recording of Webern conducting Bruckner? I don't think so, alas.

[Sinfoniette]

Amazing rendition. Who can expect more than Webern conducting Berg?

Thank you very much for posting. its amazing.

[Scalatti]

For me this has been one of the treasure finds here on YT. Priceless. Thank you for uploading.

[tobiasundry]

Thank you so much man...I have been looking for this for a long time. Really special recording.

[ohchino]

Thanks pOlyphOny, a lOt.

This is heart and innovation, not a laboratory, as many says.

Such a pitty that this became Berg's own requiem.

What's the name of Walter Gropius daugther for whom this piece was made in memorian?

[berniesiegel]

Manon Gropius. Google her for a photo (holding a cat).

[ohchino]

Thanks berniesiegel. I recently saw that photograph at Alma Mahler-Werfel's autobiography. Manon really looks like an angel; she was a very beloved child.

[JosephLarkdale]

Thanks for the upload!